FTT Digital Technology – Undergrad Intern

At Franklin Templeton, we’re driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients’ achievements.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!

Department Title: Undergrad Intern – FTT Digital Technology - AI

Location: The intern candidate must be able to commute into the San Mateo, CA, San Ramon, CA, or New York City, NY office each week.  

Position Summary: 

Our team is responsible for the research, development, and application of AI technologies to support use cases and workflows of FT internal clients.

Joining our team this summer means growing your abilities through:

• Fine-tuning LLM and deep learning models for various applications
• Evaluating the quality of third-party AI platforms
• Performing ad-hoc analysis of product usage
• Developing reports detailing model strengths and weaknesses
• Preparing materials for engagement meetings with stakeholders

Team Culture:

Projects within FTT’s Digital Technology AI group are internal to FT and span the entire organization, including its investment managers. The team consists of a wide range of engineers with a variety of skillsets across the application stack, enabling a diverse, supportive, and collaborative engineering environment.

The product and research teams are cross functional, comprising multiple areas, including product, engineering, and AI. These teams directly interact with stakeholders from both internal leadership and partner teams, building custom AI-driven solutions. Each unique product offering leverages a variety of datasets following data governance guidelines. 

An FTT Digital Technology - AI Intern at Franklin Templeton can expect to learn:

• Fundamentals and applications of LLM technologies in finance
• Data modeling and system design for AI/ML applications
• Understanding the product development lifecycle
• Building dashboards and reports to detail product usage and adoption
• Effective communication of methods and results to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• End-to-end involvement in AI/ML applications from product inception to production

Key Responsibilities Can Include:

• Build RAGs, fine-tune LLMs, and engineer prompts for a variety of use cases
• Evaluate and monitor LLM performance
• Preform ad-hoc reporting and data analysis
• Clean and pre-process datasets
• Contribute to the design and documentation of system architectures

Ideal Qualifications:

• Experience developing and debugging in Python (Consuming APIs, data science and ML libraries)
• Exposure to ML and LLM technologies and applications
• Curious nature with a willingness and eagerness to learn
• Data analysis expertise

Ready to make moves? Apply today!

When applying, please be sure to attach your resume. Applications without a resume file attachment will not be reviewed.

Due to the large volume of applications anticipated, we may not be able to personally contact every applicant. If you are interested in applying to more than one Franklin Templeton internship, please apply for other internships that pique your interest.

Compensation Range: This is a full-time internship where students will work approximately 35-37.5 hours per week and earn competitive hourly pay of $28-$34 USD per hour. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. At Franklin Templeton, we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation and benefits are taken into consideration in determining compensation. 

What makes Franklin Templeton unique?

We believe that being a good corporate citizen is good business. To us, corporate citizenship means being accountable, serving our clients, being an employer of choice, managing our environmental impact, and supporting our communities. An emphasis on corporate citizenship is embedded in our culture, and is an important element of how we achieve success.

We are also committed to your learning and development with resources focused around Experience, Exposure, and Education, to help you achieve your professional development goals.

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